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| Name |
Q fever
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| Description |
Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium. This infection has many different reservoirs that mainly consist of dairy cattle. Infection in humans is often asymptomatic, but may appear either in an acute form accompanied mainly by fever (self-limited flu-like disease, pneumonia, or hepatitis) or in a chronic form (mainly endocarditis).
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| Category |
Infectious disease
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| Pathogen |
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| Marker |
htpAB-associated element (PCR detection)
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| Drug |
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| Comment |
Vector: Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)
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| Other DBs |
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| Reference |
PMID: 22125041 (description, env_factor, drug) |
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| Authors |
Delsing CE, Warris A, Bleeker-Rovers CP |
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| Title |
Q fever: still more queries than answers. |
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| Journal |
Adv Exp Med Biol 719:133-43 (2011) |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Kovacova E, Kazar J |
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Q fever--still a query and underestimated infectious disease. |
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| Journal |
Acta Virol 46:193-210 (2002) |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Kazar J |
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| Title |
Coxiella burnetii infection. |
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| Journal |
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:105-14 (2005) |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Woldehiwet Z |
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| Title |
Q fever (coxiellosis): epidemiology and pathogenesis. |
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| Journal |
Res Vet Sci 77:93-100 (2004) |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Mallavia LP, Whiting LL, Minnick MF, Heinzen R, Reschke D, Foreman M, Baca OG, Frazier ME |
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| Title |
Strategy for detection and differentiation of Coxiella burnetii strains using the polymerase chain reaction. |
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| Journal |
Ann N Y Acad Sci 590:572-81 (1990) |
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| Reference |
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| Authors |
Fournier PE, Raoult D |
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| Title |
Comparison of PCR and serology assays for early diagnosis of acute Q fever. |
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| Journal |
J Clin Microbiol 41:5094-8 (2003) |
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